Web Server Authentication

The Web Server Authentication page of New Subscription Wizard lets you specify the type of authentication to be used when the subscriber connects to the Web server.

Options

URL to SQL Server Compact Edition Virtual Directory on the Web Server

Specify the path to the virtual directory on the Web server. You must create the SQL Server Compact Edition virtual directory before you start the New Subscription Wizard. For more information about creating a virtual directory, see Configure Web Synchronization Wizard Help.

The subscriber will connect anonymously. A user name and password will not be required.

Select this option to allow anonymous access to the subscriber. Anonymous access gives access to your Web site without prompting users for a user name or password. When a user attempts to connect to your public Web site, your Web server assigns the connection to the Windows user account IUSR_computername, where computername is the name of the computer on which IIS is running.

The subscriber will be authenticated. A user name and password will be required.

Select this option to enforce authenticated access to the user. Authenticated access forces a user to provide identification credentials, such as a user name and a password, each time the user connects to the Web server. These credentials are validated against some authority, such as a database. If the credentials are valid, the entity that submitted the credentials is considered an authenticated identity.